I know that in recent weeks I haven’t had much to say here about the SOPA and PIPA bills in Congress and I really should have. Suffice it to say that there’s been a lot of complications that have kept me busy with things of a more personal nature. However that doesn’t change the fact […]
[Edit June 8, 2012: The Freenet 0.5 network is effectively dead (see this post for details). While you are welcome to try to make this software work and revitalize it, I know of no currently operating nodes. If you DO get a useable network up and running, DO let me know.] A long overdue new […]
Last Tuesday (1/18/11) some 43 companies got together and sent a letter to the US Attorney General Eric holder & John Morton of ICE. It was also cc’d to Vice President Joe Biden, Janet Naplitano of Homeland Security, the IP czar Victoria Espinel (I don’t know about you but I can’t help thinking how UN-American […]
As most of you are probably aware the ultimate whistleblower site, wikileaks, has once again been in the news quite a bit because it has published thousands of documents, messages and so on that have proven to be a major source of embarrassment to not only the US government but to several other governments around […]
The TSA’s problems with the body scanners that take nude pictures of you and the obscene “pat downs” that are little more than grope sessions where TSA employees handle your junk wearing the same gloves they used to handle the last person’s junk. The controversy and outrage over this and the delays it causes in […]